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- Annual Essay Contest Winners Announced - Tyler Morning Telegraph
The winners of the fifth Annual “Why My Mom is Best” Essay Contest were announced recently at the Discovery Science Place. An essay contest for kids in Kindergarten through fifth grade, more than 200 children entered the contest to tell why their ...
- Depth of talent unbelievable - Montana Standard
Break out your dancing shoes and your water bottle and head Uptown. The National Folk Festival has finally arrived, bringing the widest array of music ever to hit these century-old Butte streets, at least all in the same weekend. The craft shows ...
- Thomas' stark honesty is 'a punch to the heart' - Salt Lake Tribune
Thomas' stark honesty is 'a punch to the heart'Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 7 minutes agoMartha Rhodes: Author of three poetry collections and director of independent publishing house Four Way Books. * Rick Campbell: Florida A & M University ...
- SHORT TAKES - L.A. Watts Times
SHORT TAKESL.A. Watts Times, CA - 1 hour ago... a poet who served in the Vietnam War and wrote “Declension in the Village” and Brian Turner, who wrote poetry while serving in Iraq. ...
- Massachusetts Briefings - Providence Journal
Massachusetts BriefingsProvidence Journal, RI - 23 minutes agoThe lecture “From Sappho to Sophia and Beyond: Towards a History of Portuguese Women’s Poetry,” by Prof. Anna M. Klobucka, of the department of Portuguese, ...
- Students' dream of cancer-free world put on paper - Prince Edward Island Guardian
Keira Coady and Easton Smith read poetry they’ve written, focusing on their hopes for a cancer-free world. Guardian photo Keira Coady and Easton Smith dream of a world without cancer, and put those dreams to paper as part of a recent class project ...
- Foothills co-founder gets Friendship award - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Marc P. Smith, the co-founder and retired artistic director of the Worcester Foothills Theatre Co., was recently awarded the German Friendship Award for his "efforts on behalf of German-American relations" and for "fostering and sustaining friendship ...
- Pet's Purring Is Worth A Thousand Words - CBS News
(AP) Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "cat whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old ...
- Scotland: A Changing Nation - The List
The ListScotland: A Changing NationThe List, UK - 3 hours agoAnd we’re using everything we can to explore those themes; poetry, paintings, personal individual stories, projections, historic artefacts, Irn Bru adverts, ...
- Poet's Choice - Washington Post
Poet's ChoiceWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoA poet, Jason also founded the Writer's Voice program at New York's West Side YMCA, which spread nationwide, furthering poetry's far-flung infiltrations. ...
- Author Francis Mayes Kicks Off the 11th Season of North Carolina ... - Carolina Newswire
Each year, North Carolina authors publish hundreds of books of all types and for the past ten seasons UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch has brought the best and brightest of these southern scribes to the small screen ...
- Tilly and the Wall hang onto their whimsy - Tacoma News Tribune
Even though they may be twenty-something indie icons, Omaha’s Tilly and the Wall refuse to grow up. From the conception of their name (after a children’s book by Leo Lionni) to their singalong teen anthems, the five-piece can’t seem to shake ...
- Girls get a chance to shine at Ophelia Project event - Tampabay.com
Tampabay.comGirls get a chance to shine at Ophelia Project eventTampabay.com, FL - 4 hours ago"The poetry in the class was fun, and I loved the free backpack and school supplies," said Sarah Proffitt, 11, who was in town visiting her aunt in Wimauma. ...
- Poster poems: Actually creating reading of substance trapped in ... - Guardian Blogs
OK, so it's better if you don't have a Y in your name. With more advanced students, I liked to explore more complex possibilities; the language of affection, irony, satire, the natural world and so on were all practised by generating acrostics. But ...
- Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's history - DesMoinesRegister.com
Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's historyDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 17 hours agoThe Iowa History Prize follows the model of the Iowa Poet Laureate, a title that personalizes poetry by attaching a name and face to that powerful and broad ...
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